Book Series Seminari del Centro interuniversitario per la storia e l’archeologia dell’alto medioevo, vol. 10

Masculinity in Early Medieval Europe

Tradition and Innovation, 450–1050

Francesco Borri, Maria Cristina La Rocca, Francesco Veronese (eds)

  • Pages: approx. 306 p.
  • Size:156 x 234 mm
  • Illustrations:9 b/w, 5 tables b/w., 2 maps b/w
  • Language(s):English, Italian
  • Publication Year:2023


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BIO

Francesco Borri is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
Cristina La Rocca is Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Padua.
Francesco Veronese is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Padova.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Cristina La Rocca, Introduzione

I. QUESTIONI DI FAMIGLIA/ FAMILY MATTERS
Michael E. Stewart, Marriage, Power, and Manly Romanitas in the Age of Justinian
Annamaria Pazienza, When the Groom Relocates: Men’s Change of Residence after Marriage in Lombard Italy
Andreas Fischer, Fathers and Sons: Roles, Laws and Expectations in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

II. PARLIAMO DI GUERRIERI/ LET US TALK ABOUT WARRIORS
Danuta Shanzer, Power, Violence, Pity, and Courage: Through Clerical Eyes in the Early Middle Ages
Francesco Borri, Savage Dreams: Militant Masculinity between Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Leonardo Sernagiotto, L’importanza di chiamarsi Lotario: Potere, violenza, coraggio ed empietà di un imperatore carolingio
 
III. CORPI DI CHIERICI, CADAVERI DI CHIERICI / CLERICAL BODIES, CLERICAL CORPSES

Rachel Stone, On Criminal Priests: Illicit Desires and Clerical Masculinity
Francesco Veronese, Men Moving Men’s Bodies: Hagiographical Masculinities in Carolingian Times

IV. QUEL CHE RESTA DELLA MASCOLINITÀ/ WHAT IS LEFT OF MASCULINITIES
Bonnie Effros, St Martial, Disciple of Christ: Apostolic Conversion Stories and the Crisis of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century France
Flavia De Rubeis, La firma dell’uomo: uso della scrittura e consapevolezza di sé
Giovanna Bianchi & Serena Viva, Archaeology and Anthropology of a Group of laboratores from a Royal Center in Early Medieval Tuscia

Francesco Borri & Francesco Veronese, Conclusioni